Chapter 258 So Much Silver?

Everyone looked at Gu Fei eagerly. This price was related to their harvest.

Gu Fei thought about it and found that there were about seven or eight kilograms of fresh chili peppers per kilogram of dried chili peppers. Since the dried chili peppers sold for two hundred cents, it was just right to buy the fresh chili peppers for thirty cents.

Gu Fei said: "Just thirty coins."

Chen's eyes widened, "Thirty coins? Isn't it too expensive?"

"I've only picked four acres of land, and that's a lot. How much will it cost?"

Gu Fei calculated that there were only four thousand kilograms here, which worked out to one hundred and twenty taels of silver.

When Chen Shi heard this number, he couldn't speak, "No way, how can you get so much money from farming?"

In previous years, when I grew corn and wheat at home, the annual output from one acre of land was about two to three taels of silver.

This acre of land yielded thirty taels of silver, and that wasn't all. Chen estimated that there were still blooming and ungrown ones in the picked fields, and they could still harvest almost this much.

After all, one acre of land produces fifty or sixty taels of silver.

If she grows all the peppers on her twenty acres of land, wouldn't she be able to earn a thousand taels of silver!

Chen shook his head, "No, you must have made a mistake."

The uncle also said: "How can there be so many? If there are really so many, then I will not be rich!"

He is the only laborer in his family, planting three acres of chili peppers. He works in the fields day by day, fearing that he will not be taken care of well.

My aunt has a large family and farms seven acres of land.

My eldest uncle also knows how to settle accounts, keeping silent and doing the calculations in his mind.

Gu Fei also suspected that she had made a mistake in her calculation, so she took out a pen and paper and calculated it again. Yes, it was one hundred and twenty taels of silver.

Gu Zhang was also holding an abacus and dialing it next to him.

In the end, everyone came to the conclusion that that was it, yes!

Gu Zhang hesitated and said: "Xiao Fei, is the price we set too high?"

Gu Fei chuckled and said, "Dad, we are an exclusive business, so I still give a reasonable price."

"Besides, regardless of how expensive it is this year, if there are more people planting it next year, it won't be at this price, and it will probably only cost a few cents per pound."

"In a few years, when pepper seeds are everywhere, they may cost a penny per pound. Maybe they will still find them expensive."

"Think about it, chili is just a vegetable, how much does cabbage cost per pound?"

Mrs. Chen was right when she thought about it. Cabbage is only worth a penny per catty.

Gu Zhang nodded, "In other words, we can make a lot of money this year, and we can't expect so much more in the future."

Gu Fei nodded vigorously.

The younger uncle looked at the elder uncle and said, "Brother-in-law, please pinch me and see."

The eldest uncle followed the good example and pinched the younger uncle without hesitation. The younger uncle screamed and jumped up, "I'm not dreaming. I can earn more than 100 taels of silver from these three acres of land!"

"My dear, I never thought I could earn so much money in this life!"

Gu Fei pursed her lips and smiled: "Uncle, there's no rush. We don't need so many fresh peppers right now. When the peppers are all red, pick them and dry them, and we'll sell them dried."

The eldest uncle couldn't help but said: "Then Young Master Zhu really said, how many peppers do we have and how much does he charge?"

Gu Fei nodded and added, "We can't give it all to him. We have to keep enough dried chili peppers for a year."

Gu Fei turned to look at Gu Zhang, "Dad, I have an idea. Although my aunt's family, my uncle's family, and our family are not worried about money right now, the village chief's family, the uncle's family, and Uncle Zhang's family, It’s still very difficult, and every household is in debt.”

"I plan to teach you how to make a snack and sell it in Ping An City. If you do it well, I estimate that I can earn one or two and a half taels of silver a day."